Preparation method and application of hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of secondary battery anode materials, and particularly relates to a preparation method and application of a hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material.
Background
Along with the continuous improvement of the technological development on the energy power demand and the demand of the long-endurance and ultra-fast rechargeable battery, the graphite of the negative electrode material of the traditional lithium battery has been developed to be close to the theoretical capacity. The theoretical specific capacity of the silicon material can reach 4200mAh/g, which is more than 10 times of that of the traditional graphite negative electrode material, however, the main reason that the silicon-based negative electrode material is not applied on a large scale is that the silicon expands 3 times of the original volume in the lithiation process, which is fatal to a lithium battery. The silicon-carbon composite material is an effective means for solving the problem of low specific capacity and relieving the silicon expansion effect at present, such as a chemical vapor deposition silicon-carbon negative electrode material, and is prepared by decomposing silane gas in porous carbon pore canals to generate nano silicon, wherein the performance of a used porous carbon substrate has great influence on a final product. The porous carbon substrate material has hard carbon and soft carbon, and the two materials have advantages and disadvantages. The hard carbon mainly comprises biomass, high molecular organic matters and resins, the biomass hard carbon material is difficult to regulate and control a pore structure through activation due to inherent macropores, the raw materials are greatly influenced by natural environment and are difficult to stabilize, the resin hard carbon material can obtain a porous structure with controllable pore structure through an activation reaction, and the raw materials are stable, low in impurity content and high in structural strength, but high in price and difficult to apply to the power battery market in a large scale. In addition, the short-range disordered structure of the hard carbon leads to higher diffusion rate of lithium ions and good compatibility with electrolyte, so that the lithium ion battery has higher rate capability, but too many holes lead to larger specific surface area and low first charge and discharge efficiency. Soft carbon has wide raw materials, low price, good conductivity and fast lithium ion transmission rate, but cannot effectively bear the volume expansion of silicon due to poor strength and high expansion rate, and is not enough to prevent agglomeration among silicon particles.
The preparation of composite carbon by compositing hard carbon and soft carbon is an important research direction of silicon carbon negative electrode materials by utilizing the respective advantages of the hard carbon and the soft carbon. Chinese patent CN113889593B discloses a preparation method of a hard carbon coated soft carbon composite material, which comprises the following steps of 1) carrying out hydrothermal reaction on precursor liquid containing asphalt compounds, titanium dioxide and an organic solvent to obtain core precursor particles, 2) dissolving a hard carbon precursor, lithium salt and benzenesulfonic acid in the solvent to obtain a coating solution, coating the core precursor particles by using the coating solution, and then carbonizing, wherein the hard carbon precursor is one or more than two of phenolic resin, epoxy resin, polyfurfuryl alcohol, furfural resin, furfuryl ketone resin and furfuryl alcohol resin. The hard carbon coated soft carbon composite material obtained by the method takes TiO 2 doped soft carbon as an inner core, can improve specific capacity and lithium ion transmission capacity, and improves structural stability of the material and safety of battery operation, and the hard carbon in the shell has the characteristics of large interlayer spacing and stable structure, is favorable for improving quick charge performance and cycle performance of the material, and improves primary efficiency and multiplying power performance of the material by supplementing lithium to the hard carbon material through lithium salt.
Chinese patent CN111293301B discloses a soft and hard carbon composite porous negative electrode material for sodium ion battery and its preparation method. The soft and hard carbon composite porous anode material is prepared by regulating and controlling cobalt nitrate, dimethyl imidazole and polyvinyl alcohol. The preparation method comprises the steps of dropwise adding ethanol solution of dimethyl imidazole into ethanol solution of cobalt nitrate, stirring at room temperature to form solution of precursor ZIF-67, adding polyvinyl alcohol into the solution, refluxing to form gel, naturally cooling, freeze-drying, and placing in an inert gas atmosphere at 700-1100 ℃ for 2-5 hours to obtain the anode material. The invention synthesizes a soft carbon source metal organic framework ZIF-67, then adds a hard carbon source PVA to form gel, and obtains a final product after heat treatment. The composite anode material prepared by the invention combines the advantages of excellent conductivity of soft carbon and high capacity of hard carbon, effectively improves the stability of the battery, and improves the cycle performance and coulomb efficiency of the sodium ion battery. The method has the advantages of stable raw material components, simple process operation and high repeatability, and is beneficial to industrial production.
The hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon prepared in the patent is physically coated, the core-shell has insufficient adhesion, the shell is easy to peel, namely, the structure is not stable enough, and further adverse effects on the cycle performance and the compression resistance can be caused.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the problem that the composite porous carbon prepared by coating soft carbon with hard carbon has insufficient adhesion between core and shell, namely unstable structure, the invention provides a preparation method of a composite porous carbon-based anode material of soft carbon coated with hard carbon.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the preparation method of the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material comprises the following steps:
(S1) carbonizing, activating and crushing a soft carbon material precursor to obtain soft carbon core particles;
(S2) soaking soft carbon core particles in an oxidative inorganic strong acid, rinsing and drying after the soaking is finished to obtain oxidized soft carbon, dispersing the oxidized soft carbon in a mixed solution of dopamine polyethylene glycol silane and an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent to carry out a grafting reaction to obtain modified soft carbon, adding the modified soft carbon and dopamine into a Tris-HCl buffer solution to carry out an in-situ copolymerization reaction, and centrifuging, washing and drying after the reaction is finished to obtain the composite particles of organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon, wherein the structural formula of the dopamine polyethylene glycol silane is as follows:
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wherein R is methyl or ethyl, and n is an integer of 5-15;
(S3) putting the organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon composite particles and a surfactant into an alcohol aqueous solution to form a suspension, then adding a phenolic monomer, paraformaldehyde and an alkali catalyst into the suspension, and heating to perform in-situ polymerization reaction;
(S4) carbonizing and activating the phenolic aldehyde coated soft carbon composite particles to obtain hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon;
And S5, carrying out chemical vapor deposition on the composite porous carbon by utilizing an organosilicon source gas to enable part or all of nano silicon particles to be attached in the pores of the porous carbon, and then adopting a vapor carbon source to carry out vapor deposition to form a carbon coating layer to obtain the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material.
After the soft carbon kernel particles are oxidized, rich oxygen-containing functional groups such as-OH, -COOH and the like are generated on the surfaces, so that the subsequent grafting modification is facilitated. When the dopamine polyethylene glycol silane is grafted and modified, oxygen-containing functional groups such as-OH, -COOH and the like on the surface of the soft carbon kernel particles react with the siloxy groups, so that the dopamine polyethylene glycol silane is introduced to the surface of the soft carbon kernel particles through chemical bonds, then the active dopamine groups on the surface of the soft carbon subjected to grafting modification are subjected to copolymerization reaction with dopamine monomers, so that polydopamine is coated on the surface of the soft carbon in situ to form organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon composite particles, and then the organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon composite particles are subjected to in situ polymerization to form phenolic resin, namely a three-layer structure is formed, wherein the inner layer is the soft carbon, the middle layer is the organosilicon-polydopamine, and the outer layer is the phenolic aldehyde. The dopamine polyethylene glycol silane with a certain chain segment length and the short-chain dopamine monomer can form effective complementation, so that the organosilicon-polydopamine of the middle layer compactly, uniformly and stably coats soft carbon, meanwhile, the polydopamine in the middle layer has stronger adhesion performance, and rich benzene-ring diphenol groups and amino groups in the polydopamine can form stronger hydrogen bond acting force with the phenolic aldehyde of the outer layer, so that the binding force between the two is enhanced, the phenolic aldehyde of the outer layer is firmly and stably coated on the middle layer, and in addition, the step (S3) is the in-situ polymerization to form the phenolic aldehyde, so that the stability of the structure is further promoted. Carbonizing and activating the phenolic aldehyde coated soft carbon composite particles to form hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon which has a three-layer stable structure and is firmly bonded between core shells, wherein the inner layer of the three-layer structure is soft carbon, the middle layer is organic silicon-carbon, and the outer layer is hard carbon; finally, chemical vapor silicon deposition and carbon coating are carried out to form the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material.
The polymerization degree of polyethylene glycol chain segments in the dopamine polyethylene glycol silane is required to be in the above range, and if the polymerization degree is too high, the active phenolic hydroxyl groups in the formed organosilicon-polydopamine are relatively less, so that the bonding force between the organosilicon-polydopamine and the outer phenolic resin is weak, the structural stability of the composite porous carbon is poor, and the structure of part of pores is collapsed during activation. The degree of polymerization is less, and the chain segment is too short, and can not be effectively complemented with the dopamine monomer to form a compact intermediate layer, so that the structural stability of the composite porous carbon is poor, and the structure of part of the pores is collapsed during activation.
Further, in the step (S1), the soft carbon material precursor is at least one of needle coke, petroleum coke, carbon fiber, and mesophase pitch microsphere.
Further, in the step (S1), the carbonization condition is that the temperature is kept at 300-800 ℃ for 3-8 hours under an inert atmosphere, the inert atmosphere is nitrogen and/or argon, the activation condition is that at least one of KOH, naOH, KHCO 3、NaHCO3 is used as an activating agent, the mass ratio of the carbonized soft carbon material precursor to the activating agent is 1:2-5, the temperature is 700-900 ℃, and the time is 2-6 hours.
Further, in the step (S1), the particle diameter D50 of the soft carbon core particles is 3-10 mu m, the specific surface area is 1500-2500 m 2/g, and the pore volume is 0.5-1.5 cm 3/g.
Further, in the step (S2), the dosage ratio of the soft carbon core particles to the oxidizing inorganic strong acid is 100g (500-1000) mL, the oxidizing inorganic strong acid is 3-5 mol/L nitric acid and/or sulfuric acid, the soaking condition is that the temperature is 40-60 ℃ for 2-6 hours, the rinsing is water washing to be neutral, and the drying is that the moisture is less than 5wt%.
In the step (S2), the dosage ratio of the oxidized soft carbon to the dopamine polyethylene glycol silane to the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent is 100g (60-90) mL (500-1000) mL, the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent is at least one of toluene and xylene, and the grafting reaction condition is that the grafting reaction is carried out under the condition of heating to 100-120 ℃ and carrying out reflux reaction for 20-30 hours.
Further, in the step (S2), the dosage of the dopamine is 8-15wt% of that of the modified soft carbon, the dosage ratio of the dopamine to the Tris-HCl buffer solution is (5-10) g, the concentration of the Tris-HCl buffer solution is 10-25 mM, the pH is 8.0-9.0, the condition of in-situ copolymerization reaction is that stirring reaction is carried out for 4-8 hours at 20-30 ℃, and the condition of drying is that drying is carried out for 12-24 hours at 60-80 ℃ in a vacuum oven.
Further, in the step (S3), the mass ratio of the organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon composite particles to the phenolic monomer is 100 (25-40), preferably 100 (30-35).
Further, in the step (S3), the amount of the surfactant is 2-4wt% of the composite particles of the organic silicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon, the molar ratio of the phenolic monomer to the paraformaldehyde is 1 (1.5-1.6), the molar amount of the paraformaldehyde is calculated by the monomer formaldehyde, and the amount of the base catalyst is 2-3wt% of the phenolic monomer.
Further, in the step (S3), the surfactant is at least one of sodium succinate sulfonate, sodium dodecyl sulfonate and sodium fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether sulfate, the concentration of alcohol in the alcohol-water solution is 15-30wt%, the alcohol is ethanol, propanol or isopropanol, the phenolic monomer is at least one of phenol, cresol and xylenol, and the alkali catalyst is ammonia water or inorganic alkali, for example, the inorganic alkali is KOH or NaOH.
Further, in the step (S3), the in-situ polymerization reaction is carried out at a temperature of 70-90 ℃ for 3-6 hours, and the drying and curing are carried out at a temperature of 80-100 ℃ for 24-48 hours.
Further, in the step (S4), the carbonization condition is that the temperature is kept at 300-800 ℃ for 3-8 hours under an inert atmosphere, the inert atmosphere is nitrogen and/or argon, the activation condition is that at least one of steam, carbon dioxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide is used as an activating agent, the temperature is 800-1000 ℃ for 4-8 hours, and the dosage ratio of the carbonized phenolic aldehyde coated soft carbon composite particles to the activating agent is 1g (10-20) L.
Further, in the step (S4), the particle diameter D50 of the composite porous carbon of the hard carbon coated soft carbon is 5-15 mu m, the specific surface area is 1800-3000 m 2/g, and the pore volume is 0.7-1.2 cm 3/g.
In step (S5), the process of vapor depositing silicon and carbon coatings is well known to those skilled in the art. If the organic silicon source gas is adopted for carrying out vapor deposition on silicon, the dosage ratio of the composite porous carbon to the organic silicon source gas is 1kg (150-300L), the organic silicon source gas is at least one of silane, disilane, trichlorosilane, silicon tetrachloride and silicon tetrafluoride, if the gas phase carbon source is adopted for carrying out carbon coating, the dosage ratio of the composite porous carbon to the gas phase carbon source is 1kg (250-500L), and the gas phase carbon source is at least one of C1-4 alkane, C2-4 alkene and C2-4 alkyne.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material prepared by the aforementioned preparation method.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
1) The method comprises the steps of carrying out surface grafting modification on a porous soft carbon inner core by adopting dopamine polyethylene glycol silane to form modified porous carbon, carrying out in-situ copolymerization on the modified porous carbon inner core and a dopamine monomer to form organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon composite particles, and carrying out in-situ polymerization on the surfaces of the organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon composite particles to form phenolic resin, wherein a three-layer structure is formed, the inner layer is soft carbon, the middle layer is organosilicon-polydopamine, and the outer layer is phenolic. The dopamine polyethylene glycol silane with a certain chain segment length and the short-chain dopamine monomer can form effective complementation, so that the organosilicon-polydopamine of the middle layer compactly, uniformly and stably coats soft carbon, meanwhile, the polydopamine in the middle layer has stronger adhesion performance, and rich benzene-ring diphenol groups and amino groups in the polydopamine can form stronger hydrogen bond acting force with phenolic resin, so that the binding force between the two is enhanced, the phenolic resin of the outer layer is firmly and stably coated on the middle layer, and in addition, the step (S3) is to form phenolic aldehyde through in-situ polymerization, so that the structural stability is further promoted. Carbonizing and activating the phenolic aldehyde coated soft carbon composite particles to form hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon which has a three-layer stable structure and is firmly bonded between core shells, wherein the inner layer of the three-layer structure is soft carbon, the middle layer is organic silicon-carbon, and the outer layer is hard carbon; finally, chemical vapor silicon deposition and carbon coating are carried out to form the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material.
2) The organic silicon-polydopamine in the middle layer of the composite porous carbon prepared by the invention contains silicon and nitrogen elements, realizes that a layer of organic silicon reticular film is formed in the structure, has high bond energy of Si-O bonds and good stability, simultaneously realizes nitrogen atom doping of the anode material, is beneficial to improving the electrochemical performance and prolonging the cycle life.
3) When the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based negative electrode material prepared by the invention is used as a silicon carbon negative electrode of a lithium battery, the material has good cycle stability and excellent compression resistance.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a TEM image of a hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon obtained in the step (S4) of example 1;
fig. 2 is a first charge-discharge curve of a lithium battery assembled from the hard carbon-coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based negative electrode material prepared in example 1 at a 0.1C rate.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be further illustrated with reference to the following specific examples, but the present invention is not limited to the following examples.
The experimental methods described in the examples below, unless otherwise indicated, are conventional, and the reagents and materials, unless otherwise indicated, are commercially available.
The dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane is selected from the group consisting of new technology limited company of Siamikade, wherein,
The number average molecular weight of the dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X1 and the polyglycol chain segments is 500, namely the average polymerization degree n is about 11;
The number average molecular weight of the dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X2 and the polyglycol chain segment is 200, namely the average polymerization degree n is about 5;
the number average molecular weight of the dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X3 and the polyglycol chain segments is 650, namely the average polymerization degree n is about 15;
the number average molecular weight of the dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X4 and the polyglycol chain segment is 1000, namely the average polymerization degree n is about 23;
the number average molecular weight of the dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X5 and the polyglycol chain segment is 100, namely the average polymerization degree n is about 2.
Example 1
(S1) carbonizing mesophase pitch microspheres for 4 hours at 700 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere to obtain mesophase carbon microspheres, then mixing the mesophase carbon microspheres with KOH according to a mass ratio of 1:2.5, activating for 3 hours at 800 ℃ in the nitrogen atmosphere, adding the obtained material into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 1M at 40 ℃ after the activation is finished, stirring and washing to be neutral, washing with water, drying at 90 ℃ for 12 hours, and crushing to obtain soft carbon core particles with the D50 of 6.2 mu M;
(S2) placing 300g of soft carbon core particles in 2000 mL mol/L nitric acid, soaking for 3 hours at 50 ℃, rinsing to neutrality by pure water after soaking, drying for 12 hours at 90 ℃ to obtain oxidized soft carbon, dispersing 200g of oxidized soft carbon in 120mL of mixed solution of dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X1 and 1500mL of toluene, carrying out reflux reaction for 24 hours at 100 ℃ under stirring, centrifuging after the reaction is finished, drying for 24 hours at 80 ℃ to obtain modified soft pore carbon, adding 100g of modified soft carbon and 8g of dopamine into 1000mL of Tris-HCl buffer solution (with the concentration of 20mM and the pH of 8.5), carrying out stirring reaction for 5 hours at 25 ℃, centrifuging, washing after the reaction is finished, and drying for 24 hours at 80 ℃ to obtain the composite particles of the organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon;
(S3) adding 100g of organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon composite particles and 3g of sodium dodecyl sulfate into an ethanol water mixed solution with the concentration of 20wt% of alcohol to form a suspension, then adding 25g of phenol, 12g of paraformaldehyde and 0.5g of NaOH into the suspension, heating to 80 ℃ for stirring reaction for 5 hours, centrifuging after the reaction is finished, and drying and curing at 80 ℃ for 24 hours to obtain phenolic aldehyde coated soft carbon composite particles;
(S4) taking 50g of phenolic aldehyde coated soft carbon composite particles, carbonizing for 5 hours under the atmosphere of 700 ℃ and nitrogen, continuously heating to 950 ℃, switching nitrogen into carbon dioxide, activating for 6 hours at the flow of 1.5L/min, switching carbon dioxide into nitrogen after the activation, stopping heating and naturally cooling to room temperature, and obtaining hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon;
(S5) placing 30g of hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon in a CVD furnace, introducing helium at the rotating speed of the CVD furnace of 20rpm and at the flow rate of 5L/min, heating to 600 ℃ in a helium environment, then maintaining the flow rate of helium, introducing monosilane gas at the flow rate of 0.1L/min, performing chemical vapor deposition for 1h to enable part or all of formed silicon particles to be attached in the pores of the porous carbon, stopping introducing monosilane gas after the silane deposition, continuously introducing helium at the flow rate of 5L/min to remove redundant monosilane gas, introducing acetylene gas at the flow rate of 0.2L/min, performing vapor deposition for 1h at the temperature of 600 ℃, and depositing carbon particles formed after the decomposition of the acetylene gas on the surfaces of a plurality of carbon blocks to form a carbon coating layer, thereby finally obtaining the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material.
The specific surface area of the core particles obtained in the step (S1) was 1815 m 2/g as measured by the BET method, and the average pore volume was 0.852cm 3/g. The D50 of the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon obtained in the step (S4) was 8.9 μm as measured by a particle size analyzer.
A TEM image of the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon obtained in step (S4) is shown in fig. 1.
Example 2
The remainder was the same as in example 1 except that in step (S2), the amount of dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane was 150 mL and the amount of dopamine was 12g.
Example 3
The remainder was the same as in example 1 except that in step (S2), the amount of dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane was 180 mL and the amount of dopamine was 15g.
Example 4
The remainder is the same as in example 1, except that in step (S2), dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X2 is used instead of dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X1.
Example 5
The remainder is the same as in example 1, except that in step (S2), dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X3 is used instead of dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X1.
Example 6
The remainder was the same as in example 1 except that in step (S3), the amount of phenol was 30g, the amount of paraformaldehyde was 15g, and the amount of NaOH was 0.6 g.
Example 7
The remainder was the same as in example 1 except that in step (S3), the amount of phenol was 35g, the amount of paraformaldehyde was 17g, and the amount of NaOH was 0.7g.
Example 8
The remainder was the same as in example 1 except that in step (S3), the amount of phenol was 40g, the amount of paraformaldehyde was 20g, and the amount of NaOH was 0.8g.
Comparative example 1
The rest is the same as in example 1, except that step (S2) is omitted, and the soft carbon core particles prepared in step (S1) are used in step (S3) to replace the porous carbon of the organosilicon-polydopamine coated soft carbon.
Comparative example 2
The remainder is the same as in example 1, except that in step (S2), dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X4 is used instead of dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X1.
Comparative example 3
The rest is the same as in example 1, except that in step (S2), dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X5 is used instead of dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane X1.
Application example 1
The hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based negative electrode material prepared in example 1 was applied to a negative electrode of a lithium ion battery, assembled into a lithium battery, and tested for electrochemical properties. The preparation method comprises the steps of mixing a hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based negative electrode material, super P, a carbon nano tube, a carboxymethyl cellulose and a styrene-butadiene rubber composite binder according to a mass ratio of 80:9.8:0.2:10 to prepare slurry (CMC and SBR mass ratio is 1:1), coating the slurry on copper foil by using a200 mu m thick scraper, drying in the air, placing the copper foil in a vacuum drying room to prepare a silicon-based negative electrode plate after drying in vacuum of 12h, then taking metallic lithium as a counter electrode and polyolefin as a diaphragm, taking 1 mol/L LiPF6 (a mixed solution of ethylene carbonate and dimethyl carbonate with a volume ratio of 1:1) as an electrolyte, adding 2% of VC and 5% of FEC into the electrolyte, and assembling the composite porous carbon-based negative electrode plate in a German Braun inert gas glove box in an argon atmosphere. And (3) carrying out charge and discharge tests on the assembled battery on a LAND charge and discharge tester, wherein the charge and discharge interval is 50 mV-1.5V, the compaction density is 1.1 g/cm 3, and after three times of charge and discharge under the current density of 0.1C (1C =1500 mA/g), the multiplying power charge and discharge tests are respectively carried out under the current densities of 1C and 5C.
Application examples 2 to 8
Other conditions were the same as in application example 1, except that the hard carbon-coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode materials were prepared in examples 2 to 8, respectively.
Comparative application examples 1 to 3
Other conditions were the same as in application example 1, except that the hard carbon-coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode materials were prepared in comparative examples 1 to 3, respectively.
Testing and analysis
1) The hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon was subjected to the following performance test, and the data are shown in table 1.
Determination of specific surface area and pore size distribution according to GB/T19587-2017 gas adsorption BET method, TRISTAR II 3020 type full-automatic specific surface area and pore size analyzer manufactured by U.S. Micromeritics Instrument Corporation is adopted to perform low-temperature nitrogen adsorption experiment on the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon prepared in examples and comparative examples, and pore size distribution and specific surface area of the composite porous carbon are determined.
TABLE 1 Performance test of hard carbon coated Soft carbon composite porous carbon
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As can be seen from Table 1, the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon prepared by the preparation embodiment of the invention has higher specific surface area than that of soft carbon inner core particles, and meanwhile, the middle layer organosilicon-polydopamine contains silicon and nitrogen elements, so that a layer of organosilicon reticular membrane and nitrogen atom doping are formed in the structure, and the electrochemical performance is improved.
The specific surface area of the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon prepared in comparative example 1 is lower than that of the examples, probably because the phenolic coated soft carbon composite particles formed after omitting step (S2) do not contain an organosilicon-polydopamine intermediate layer, the bonding force between the carbonized soft carbon inner core layer and the hard carbon outer layer is weak, the structure of part of the pores is collapsed in the subsequent activation pore-forming process, and the composite porous carbon prepared in comparative example 1 does not contain nitrogen elements because of the absence of the organosilicon-polydopamine intermediate layer.
The specific surface area of the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon prepared in comparative example 2 is lower than that of the embodiment, probably because the polymerization degree of the dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane is larger, the active phenolic hydroxyl in the formed organosilicon-polydopamine is relatively less, so that the bonding force between the organosilicon-polydopamine and the outer phenolic resin is weaker, the structural stability of the composite porous carbon is poorer, and the structure of part of pores is collapsed during activation.
The specific surface area of the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon prepared in comparative example 3 is lower than that of the embodiment, probably because the polymerization degree of the dopamine polyethylene glycol triethoxysilane is smaller, the chain segment is too short, the chain segment and the dopamine monomer cannot be effectively complemented to form a compact middle layer, the structural stability of the composite porous carbon is poor, and the structure of part of the pores is collapsed during activation.
As can be seen from comparison of the surface areas of the soft carbon core particles, the specific surface areas of the composite porous carbon prepared in comparative examples 1,2 and 3 are reduced, and the composite porous carbon is unstable in structure and is caused by collapse of the pore structure in the subsequent carbonization and activation processes.
2) Electrochemical performance test the batteries assembled in the application examples and the comparative application examples are subjected to charge and discharge tests on a LAND charge and discharge tester, wherein the electric interval is 50 mV-1.5V, the compaction density is 1.1 g/cm < 3 >, and the batteries are subjected to three charge and discharge tests under the condition that the current density is 0.1C (1C =1500 mA/g). The battery performance test data are shown in table 2.
Table 2 electrochemical performance test
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As can be seen from the data in table 2, when the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based negative electrode material prepared by the preparation method is used as a negative electrode of a lithium battery, the first reversible capacity of the material reaches 1850mAh/g, the first coulomb efficiency reaches 88% or more, and the retention rate of discharge capacity of the material after 100 times of circulation can reach 89% or more, which indicates that the assembled lithium battery has good circulation stability and charge-discharge capacity. The first-effect attenuation rate of the hard carbon coated soft carbon composite porous carbon-based anode material prepared by the method is lower than 5% under the pressure of 10t, which indicates that the material has good structural stability.
The foregoing detailed description is directed to one of the possible embodiments of the present invention, which is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, but is to be accorded the full scope of all such equivalents and modifications so as not to depart from the scope of the invention.